Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6ae6abd02cbde61…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.9 KB Created: 2020-08-19 06:19:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7b5b499ac5287316363ddff4028095f2 SHA-1: 5078249e3c50a011f097aba3b13c820b9d3ec4e3 SHA-256: b6ae6abd02cbde6142b3d6da93fd19c2621b481e51082a9601f144b6d556a334
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with many links pointing to benign Shopify URLs but one critical link to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to software cracking and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure for users seeking cracked software. The redirector URL is the primary indicator of malicious intent, likely leading to further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=wondershare+data+recovery+for+android+full+crack In PDF document text
    • http://xebevaje.rorymichelle.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969191/ririgamuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zutaboma.dplpoker.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636664/xibumokonugekawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rulamip.indianlandsocceracademy.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/rigusifagomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vogif.clairehinchman.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380600/125feaa9434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9681/6282/files/how_to_cancel_apple_music_subscription_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0866/3462/files/soginizule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7079/9510/files/jilubotot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1374/1471/files/nizutulilolijaxexigivubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3961/3347/files/convert_base64_to_python.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4575/6821/files/norma_aisi_316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6071/4904/files/kulawojabaxomulanitikexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3057/6285/files/23992204512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007714.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7714 5232 bytes
SHA-256: 8c8b6496a6234fb6578a684fb3880a263aeca458d4942d6afd6216f29bcedeb1
font_01_sfnt_off000088e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x88E6 10368 bytes
SHA-256: 7212fc19abdc144883d054304805fbb2f7bf20234e9d4bca3c84690215f3b5da
font_02_sfnt_off0000ac59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAC59 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3